Projects
Continuity and change in glassmaking technologies during the first millennium B.C. KU Leuven
Glass was first produced in a regular and controlled way in the 16th century BC, probably in what is now northern Syria. It was highly prized and valuable, but after around 1000 BC, disappears almost entirely from the archaeological record. It seems to reappear several centuries later, although exactly when and where remains uncertain, but remains relatively rare. It is only the invention of glassblowing in the 1st century BC that runs glass ...
Metallogenesis of the Cu-Co deposits in the Central African Copperbelt, information from REE patterns and the Lu-Hf isotopic system. KU Leuven
This PhD thesis is centered on the Central African Copperbelt, a Neoproterozoic stratiform Cu-Co ore province, and consists of three main parts. The first part focuses on the geotectonic evolution of the basement units in the vicinity of the Katanga basin that hosts the ore deposits. The second part uses rare earth element patterns in gangue carbonates associated with the ores as proxies for hydrothermal mineralization-related processes. The ...
Quantifying threshold conditions for landward erosion and seaward expansion of tidal marsh shorelines. University of Antwerp
The interaction between climate and the African great lakes: A study with a regional climate model. KU Leuven
In this PhD project, use will be made of the regional climate model CCLM, in which only very recently, the freshwater lake parameterisation scheme FLake has been implemented. The research will be build around three main axes: (i) improvement of the treatment of turbulent exchanges and lake dynamics in FLake, (ii) climate simulations –and evaluation– for Central and Eastern Africa using CCLM driven by Global Climate Model (GCM) output, and ...